Yvonne Lee - All Headline News Staff ReporterScientists at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, England used a food additive based on fumaric acid to decrease the odor of cows' gas by up to 70 percent. The acid is a chemical that is essential to animal and vegetable respiration, reports Reuters.

A man is arrested after animal control officers find his 5-month-old puppy buried alive. According to police, an anonymous tip led to the discovery that 25-year-old Shawn Longfellow dug a hole in the ground, and put the puppy in it with a piece of wooden fence, dirt, and a cinder block over the hole.

Two turkeys that were being plumped up for a White House Thanksgiving have been spared by President Bush. Instead of becoming dinner, the birds will be honorary grand marshals at Disneyland's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Sam, the dog who earned the undisputed title as the world's ugliest dog for years, has died. The pup with the hairless body, crooked teeth and sparse tuft of hair on his knobby and knotty head died on Friday, just shy of his 15th birthday, according to his owner, Susie Lockheed. "I don't think there'll ever be another Sam," she says, "Some people would think that's a good thing. "Sam became an international celebrity after winning the ugliest animal contest at the 2003 Sonoma-Marin Fair in California.

The Domino tournament that nearly ended when a sparrow flew in the room now has the bird exterminator in trouble. An animal worker who shot a sparrow after it almost wrecked a world record domino-toppling bid has asked for police protection after receiving numerous death threats.